Maguru
I would not forget space/eather as the 5th element. If you look at the 5 primary elements as fundamental qualities and review how they are understood in India (Mahabhutas), we discover they are the essential qualities of the 8 groups of a traditional periodic table of the elements, the atoms that make up the world. State, reactivity and so forth are all predicted. (groups determine the number of electrons in the outer orbit and thus reactivity)
The 5 elements are in turned formed by a combination of three "gunas". They can be seen as creation, maintenance and destruction, or clarity, energy and inertia. Perception causes them to go out of balance, resulting is qualities to manifest.
It's interesting that he refers to time and space as non-constructible concepts. Time and space are formed by the process of experience, in the subject-object relationship. As science leaves the subject out of its study, it cannot model them.
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